Table of Contents

Preface - Robert Poole
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: the Lancashire witches in historical context - James Sharpe
I. THE TRIALS OF 1612
2. Potts, plots and politics: James I’s Daemonologie and The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Stephen Pumfrey
3. Thomas Potts’s ‘dusty memory’: reconstructing justice in The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches - Marion Gibson
4. ‘Those to whom evil is done’: family dynamics in the Pendle witch trials - Jonathan Lumby
II. CONTEXTS: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, RELIGION AND MAGIC
5. Witchcraft, economy and society in the forest of Pendle - John Swain
6. The Reformation in the parish of Whalley - Michael Mullett
7. Beyond Pendle: the ‘lost’ Lancashire witches - Kirsteen Macpherson Bardell
III. REWRITING THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES
8. The pilot’s thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits - Richard Wilson
9. The Late Lancashire Witches: sexual and spiritual politics in the events of 1633-4 - Alison Findlay
10. The ‘Lancashire novelist’ and the Lancashire witches - Jeffrey Richards
11. Wicca, paganism, and history: contemporary witchcraft and the Lancashire witches - Joanne Pearson
Bibliography

About the Author

Robert Poole is Reader in History at St. Martin's College, Lancaster

Reviews

"The standard of the various articles is impressive, and it is apparent that they are all based on thorough, rigorous research. The book's layout and general organization is particularly pleasing. The introductory sections to each of the sections are clear, concise and very helpful for readers." -- Bob Walinski-Kiehl, The University of Portsmouth